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MR. MCGIBBLETS Puts the Kibosh on Team D, Has Their Number

Week 12

MR. MCGIBBLETS

142 pts, 6-6

Weekly Grade

Team D

131 pts, 2-9-1

Weekly Grade

Has anyone seen Team D's number? Oh wait, never mind, MR. MCGIBBLETS has it. Team D lost again to MR. MCGIBBLETS, this time getting beat 142 to 131. This week, Drew Brees was the difference, getting 40 points. It was even more than the 32 points Emmanuel Sanders got the last time these teams played. It could have been worse, as MR. MCGIBBLETS had two starters score zero points. This is the closest win for MR. MCGIBBLETS in two head-to-head matchups. They defeated Team D 167 to 115 in Week 3.

Top Players

Drew Brees

40

Emmanuel Sanders

29

Odell Beckham Jr.

27

Le'Veon Bell

24

Smooth Moves by MR. MCGIBBLETS

Even if you cried trying to win, you still won. And the Toyota Hall of Fame is proud of MR. MCGIBBLETS either way.

Drew Brees led the league in scoring and had the eighth-most points in the league this season with 40.

Emmanuel Sanders laughed in the face of the experts this week, beating his scoring projection by a matchup-leading 118.5% and scoring the eighth-most points in the league with 29 points.

Even with two starters scoring zero points, MR. MCGIBBLETS was still able to win.

Apparently playing within themselves was good enough. MR. MCGIBBLETS won despite having only 4 of their 10 starters exceed their projected points.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

Don't worry, Team D, the Toyota Hall of Fame says losing isn't contagious. But it is embarrassing. And you should be embarrassed.

8 of the starters on Team D underperformed versus their projections.

Travis Benjamin was last on the team in scoring and had a season-low 1 point.

With 7 points versus a projected 14.47, Rashad Jennings scored only 48.4% of his projected point total.

Brock Osweiler scored only 78.6% of his 17.82-point projection, with 14 points.

What If

If MR. MCGIBBLETS played Team D every week, they'd be 11-1 this year.

Besides Team D, MR. MCGIBBLETS would have defeated six other teams this week.

Were they resting their players for this week? MR. MCGIBBLETS would have defeated Team D 148 - 118 had they played each other last week.

MR. MCGIBBLETS would be 8-2 if they played the same schedule as Team D.

If MR. MCGIBBLETS had played every team in the league each week, they would be 75-31-2.

Besides MR. MCGIBBLETS, Team D would have been defeated by four other teams this week.

If they played the same schedule as MR. MCGIBBLETS, Team D would be 1-8-1.

Team D would be 33-73-2 if they played every team every week.

Game Notes

The 11-point margin of victory was the smallest in the league this week.

MR. MCGIBBLETS had two starters score more points than the highest-scoring starter for Team D.

The draft continues to pay off for MR. MCGIBBLETS, which got 86.6% of their points from players they drafted.

MR. MCGIBBLETS overachieved in the win, improving to 5-1 when beating their projected points this season, while Team D falls to 1-7-1 when scoring below their projected points.

Odell Beckham Jr. was on the losing team, but still had the sixth-highest score of any WR in the league this week with 27 points.

Le'Veon Bell was a bright spot for Team D in the loss with 24 points, the fifth-highest RB score in the league this week.

Travis Kelce put up the second-best TE score in the league with 18 points this week.

MR. MCGIBBLETS got 63 points from their QBs, the second-highest combined scoring output from the QB position for any team this week.